g of the power held within the conch. But again, he can not articulate this; the narrator gives it to the reader. Another example of the narrator's insight into the boy's language occurs when they start the fire on the mountain. Piggy has noticed that the little boy is gone who mention the beastie. "Piggy stood up and pointed tot he smoke and flames. A murmur rose among the boys and died away. Something strange was happening to Piggy, for he was gasping for breath" (Golding 43). This passage indicates that something is wrong with Piggy, perhaps it is his asthma, or his horror. However, he can not articulate it, and so the narrator does it for the reader.The boys in the novel Lord of the Flies are very young, and as Nabokov suggests, philistines. They are philistines "because the child or the adolescent who may look like a small philistine is only a small parrot" (Nabokov 309). Therefore, all children are philistines until they are old enough to decide for themselves. Due to this the boys language is very limited because of their inexperience with the English language, and because they feel the need to keep up a faade to be excepted. The narrator therefore clarifies the boy's emotions. The narrator articulates these emotions for the reader, so the reader can better understand the situation the boy's are in....
